Damn I personally like the Amebix and Locrian covers , they are fantastic. Amebix has to be a mass execution during WW II. Truly terrifying to think about that being so dramatically captured for eternity.

Locrian cover looks like it might be Pipyrat the ghost city within the Chernobyl exclusion zone. Very cool and dreadful stuff.

I'm glad the thread has remained on track and everyone has gotten the meaning of dread pretty much spot on. Found some good shit here too, thanks and cheers!

Don't know if you noticed all of those silhouettes in the background. I've always assumed they were spirits gathering around the recently deceased, silently stating somethin akin to "we've been expecting you". Not dreadful, but eerie as all hell.

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Nochielo wrote:

Crick wrote:

Years from now, no one will remember Gandhi. They will speak only of Fenriz.

Perhaps because I was fifteen at the time, I always got a perfectly unsettled feeling from Kind Diamond's Them. It has that foreboding ambiance akin to the Overlook Hotel or Bates Motel.

And these dudes were far better "purveyors of the weird" before I realized they were beekeepers. I'd thought they had heads of solid wood and were something out of a fever dream.

Metantoine wrote:

Also, any TRoB + this one

Does anyone know what this is? It's my favorite album by one of my favorite bands, but damned if I know what the hell is going on here. Part of me wants my imagination to remain blissfully unshackled by certainty.

Does anyone know what this is? It's my favorite album by one of my favorite bands, but damned if I know what the hell is going on here. Part of me wants my imagination to remain blissfully unshackled by certainty.

Yesterday was the birthday of school pal and I met the chick of my sigh (I've talked about here before, the she-wolf I use to be inlove with)... Maaan she was using a mini-skirt too damn insane... Dude you could saw her entire soul every time she sit...

Love that charcoal cover of the Sorrowseed cityscape. Reminds me of this dude James Castle who would do these really freakish landscapes out of charcoal drawn on old paper grocery bags.

Best covers for me are the really stark, black and white grainy photos, that portray a gritty realism mixed with a sense of dread. Those work far better for me than some illustrated cartoonish demon/monster thingy. The Winter "Into Darkness" cover is probably the best example here.

Wolok - Servum PecusThe artwork is taken from Beksiński, there are better works of his than this one definitely but it's still worth mentioning. The music on this album definitely fits the cover, too. Many other bands also used his work for album covers (Leviathan, Drowning the Light, Blood of Kingu among others mentioned on MA.)

Portrays a sense of impending doom and nothingness. Being sucked into a void where chaos reigns and darkness is embraced. Reminds me of this quote from Milton: Abashed the Devil stood and felt how awful goodness is.

The coverart from Mitochondrion's demo Through cosmic gaze always captured my attention. I know its an original painting but it just has that eternal/epic scale that I adore about those older paintings, the music is decent but the coverart more or less cemented the demo when I owned it in my mind.

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Malignanthrone wrote:

Thing is, Suicide Silence actually are more sonically massive than a good 95% of all the death metal bands in the Archives! Not metal, sure, but definitely a lot more brutal.

Under_Starmere wrote:

Manowar aren't the Kings of Metal. They're pretenders to a throne that doesn't exist.!

I always thought this one was interesting. The music on it reflects it perfectly, as well.

Not really portraying dread much, but this one used to scare the shit out of me when I was in my early teens and haven't heard black metal before, so I thought I'd throw it in. Amazing album, I might add.

The coverart from Mitochondrion's demo Through cosmic gaze always captured my attention. I know its an original painting but it just has that eternal/epic scale that I adore about those older paintings, the music is decent but the coverart more or less cemented the demo when I owned it in my mind.

That's a drawing of Heaven.

Although, spending eternity in a place that probably discourages metal would be pretty dreadful.

Portrays a sense of impending doom and nothingness. Being sucked into a void where chaos reigns and darkness is embraced. Reminds me of this quote from Milton: Abashed the Devil stood and felt how awful goodness is.

It was definitely the beginning of when his cover arts started to look the same.

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gomorro wrote:

Yesterday was the birthday of school pal and I met the chick of my sigh (I've talked about here before, the she-wolf I use to be inlove with)... Maaan she was using a mini-skirt too damn insane... Dude you could saw her entire soul every time she sit...

Warning's 'Watching From a Distance'. I don't know... The simplicity of the cover art is so dreadful, yet powerful. I love how the character just blends with the background, almost invisible. Reaching for nothingness, I must say.

Strange as this may sound, the cover of Stained Class has always unnerved me a little.

I'm not sure what it is about it, but... but... well, just look at the damned thing:

It's like a futuristic simulation of the Kennedy assassination run on the mainframe of Skynet. Or something. It's very inhuman, and, speaking of The Terminator, reminds me a little of the T-1000 from T2. People shouldn't be that shiny; I think it's an early example of the uncanny valley, in my case.

Mass graves always gave me a sense of dread. It reminds me of those stories from Nazi occupied countries where unwanted people were lined up and executed one at a time. The people must have felt such dread, and hopelessness. This portrays that exact dread I think.

This cover for Agalloch's first demo always was a bit unsettling to me. The picture is very dreary. It appears that one man is pushing on the others shoulders with his legs so as to hasten his death. The scene always raises questions in my mind. What is going on, why is he driven to kill the other man? Can't deny the badassedness of it though.

The original picture was done by Gustave Doré, who made the picture used in the Mitochondrion demo which was posted earlier. He also apparently did the original picture used for Anaal Nathrakh's In the Constellation... as well. A quick google search and you'll find most of his pieces are in the same vein.